5/21 "We only arrived last night," she pleaded. "Dear old Teresa, let us have one day in London by ourselves!" Teresa received this proposal with undisguised amazement and alarm, "Jesu Maria! a day in London--and your aunt waiting for you all the time! She is your second mother, my dear, by appointment; and her house is your new home. And you propose to stop a whole day at an hotel, instead of going home. Impossible! Write, my Carmina--write. See, here is the address on a card:--'Fairfield Gardens.' What a pretty place it must be to live in, with such a name as that! And a sweet lady, no doubt. |